Health Populi

JUNE 24, 2024

He called out that, “In recent years, however, medical bills became the most common collection item on credit reports. That rivaled 31% of consumers who delayed going on vacation — an example of the inner-household rivalry between spending priorities.

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Health Populi

JUNE 26, 2023

Note that 21% of these sicker patients needed a particular doctor or hospital not covered by their insurance — that is, out-of-network. For more details on this important study, you can check out my post here in Health Populi from November 2022. The top reason people in the U.S.

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Health Populi

JUNE 11, 2024

Multiply that shared amount by 4 to envision a family of four’s costs, and you get $12,132 — a large chunk of household spending that can crowd out other family budget items from paying a utility bill to buying school supplies, taking a vacation, or filling a gas/petrol tank.

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Health Populi

MAY 18, 2023

consumer credit rating companies — Equifax, Experian and TransUnion — planned to remove medical bill collections that were under $500 from consumers’ credit reports. ” The Commonwealth Fund data in the bar chart tells us that many patients in the U.S. On April 11, 2023, three of the largest U.S.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

have not returned to pre-pandemic levels by the end of 2022. One contributor to lackluster return-to-healthcare volumes is patients’ forgoing care due to cost — which Trilliant Health points out has overtaken COVID-19 concerns as the key driver for avoiding medical care services. That’s the demand side.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 22, 2023

The APA found in the 2022 study that stress related to money reached the highest level Americans felt since 2015. Health Populi’s Hot Points: According to the 2024 Healthcare Financial Experience Study from Cedar, 58% of U.S. consumers said paying a health care bill was stressful.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

to reveal trends on health care providers’ ability to collect patient service revenue. And bad debt — write-offs that come out of uncollected patient bill balances after “significant collection efforts” by hospitals and doctors — is challenging their already-thin or negative financial margins.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 27, 2022

More granularly, most consumers (over two-thirds) were concerned about allowing apps or sites to access their location data, online banking, accepting cookies on sites, creating new accounts on apps or sites, sharing health information with apps or sites, online shopping, paying bills, and so on. Morning Consult surveyed 6,631 U.S.

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Health Prime

JANUARY 24, 2024

The easy follow-up of patients using telemonitoring solutions and the augmented access to internet services will continue increasing telemedicine delivery. Learn more about this in our blog Optimize your telemedicine appointments with these best practices.

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Health Populi

JANUARY 2, 2023

We ended 2022 with this new, sobering statistic from the Centers tor Disease Control (CDC). In case you missed it in your pre-holiday wind-down, the CDC published two reports on declining life expectancy in America on December 22, 2022. Life expectancy in the U.S. Drug Overdose Deaths in the United States, 20021-2021.

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Walker Info - Patient Experience

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Patient experience is more than feeling good about feeling good. In fact, more than 70% of patients would switch healthcare providers to improve their experience. Improving patient experience scores through value-based care should be at the top of every health system’s to-do list.

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Health Populi

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Furthermore, health plan members now see themselves as medical bill payers, seeking value and consumer-level services for their health insurance premium investment. Patients and health plan members continue evolving into medical bill payers, with their homes and budgets baked into the concept. is getting fuzzier by the day.

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Health Populi

JUNE 6, 2022

And they have helped people co-create health outcomes as quantified in the cancer care experience slide shown here. Individuals and their families are overwhelmed with the information, tasks, steep medical bills and the ‘unknown’ that cancer brings and are trying to manage everything with limited to no support.

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Health Populi

MARCH 13, 2024

Including the algorithmically underserved Dr. John Halamka, President of the Mayo Clinic Platform, raised this last point two years ago at the HLTH 2022 conference , talking about the “algorithmically underserved.”

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Health Populi

APRIL 23, 2018

The report reviews medicines spending in 2017 looking forward to 2022. million prescriptions cost patients between $250 to $500, totaling $3.9 Against the low-cost generic backdrop, we can expect the special drug portion of the medicines bill to gain greater share of spending to 2022. There were over 5.8

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Health Populi

DECEMBER 22, 2022

the title of the article updating the winter 2022-23 sick-season asked. Thus, the sage advice as we approach gatherings for Christmastime 2022: “Close your mouth and step away from the human,” by Katherine Wu of The Atlantic. consumers’ financial wellbeing in November 2022. Which virus is it?” Entering 2023, U.S.

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Health Populi

OCTOBER 26, 2023

.” But ONC data belies that: as it happens, patients can handle the truth, as we learn that 9 in 10 U.S. patients viewed their laboratory test results online in 2022. In 2022, 29% of patients accessed their online record at least 6 times over the year, and 25% did so between 3 and 5 times.

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Health Populi

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Which sectors enhanced consumers’ favorable views between 2021 and 2022? In the Gallup poll, the most favorable industries in 2022 are restaurants (with 60% of Americans holding positive views) and farming/agriculture (at 57% favorability). These would be retail (growing by 5 points) and healthcare, up by 4 points in the year.

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Health Populi

APRIL 4, 2022

Inflation and rising prices are the biggest problem facing America, most people told the Kaiser Family Foundation March 2022 Health Tracking Poll. About 3 in 5 people worry about unexpected medical bills, followed by one-half concerned about their home’s utility bills and grocery store spending.

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